Free Community College?

So President Obama's latest push is to offer Free Community College.  For those outside of the United States community college is primarily serves two purposes.  The first is to adequately train specialized skills for those entering the work force.  Such programs can include nursing, or other medical fields, mechanics, and a few even offer truck driving schools.  Some of these programs, can have waiting lists of up to a year or more.  The reason is community college is so much cheaper than training at a private vocational school.  The second purpose of the community college is to get an associates degree or other courses required by a four year school at a greatly reduced cost.